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qooSaver gets email integration, new options

You'll remember how we all swooned when qooSaver popped up on Symbian a month ago? All that lovely information, including a weather forecast, on our always-on AMOLED screen savers? Well, it just got better, with many more options and now bundling in email notifications and headers as well. See below for the full changelog, links and screenshots/photos.

The headline feature here is the new email integration - actually pulled from qooMail (you'll need v1.3 of this, or later, released yesterday), which wraps the standard Symbian email access in a new UI. Here's the full changelog for qooSaver v1.2:

show shared data from qooMail

new layout and size options

optional random movement of text

new proximity modes

configurable powersafe mode

clock is synced

Here's the qooSaver 1.2 set-up:

On the left, part of the extensive qooSaver set-up dialog; on the right, qooMail peeking into my standard Symbian email inbox. Put the two together and what have you got?....

And here's the result in action on the E7's AMOLED screen - pretty amazing, eh? And light years ahead of any 'glance'-type display on any other platform (cf the Nokia latest Lumias and Samsung/Motorola's latest AMOLED devices):